Pastry lifter



WILLIAM G. WILSON, OF WEST BRIGHTON, NEW YORK.

PASTRY LIFTER.

Specification. of Letters Patent. Fatented Aug. 22, 1922.

Application filed April 22, 1921. Serial No. 463,489.

To all whom it may concern."

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM G. WILSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at West Brighton, Staten Island, in the county of Richmond and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Pastry Lifters, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relatesto pastry handling devices and is particularly designed for use in bakeries, confectionery stores or similar places and it has for its object the provision of a sanitary arrangement for lifting and conveying articles of pastry from a display stand, tray or the like and placing them in a receptacle or box such as employed in the sale of pastry. It is customary in bakeries or like shops to carelessly reach upon a tray and grasp articles of pastry with the hand. This has been found to be an unsanitary method in that foreign and infectious matter is frequently taken onto these articles by direct contact with the hand. The invention provides means for simplifying the handling of articles of pastry and for positively preventing the hand of the clerk or person from contacting therewith.

A further object of the invention is to provide a pastry handling device which is,

manually operable to accommodate itself to articles that vary in size and one that can be controlled to readily release itself from the articles as the occasion demands.

With the above and other objects in view which will appear as the nature of the invention is better-understood, the same consists in the improved construction and novel arrangements of parts which will hereinafter be fully described and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, has been illustrated, a single and preferred form of the invention, it being, however, understood, that no limitations are necessarily made to the precise structural details therein exhibited, but that changes, alterations and modifications within the scope of the claims may be resorted to when desired.

Figure 1, is a perspective view of the device showing a hand engaged therewith and illustrating the manner of picking up an article of pastry.

Figure 2, is a front view illustrating in dotted lines the manner of separating the jaws of the device.

The device is formed preferably from a single piece of spring wire or other suitable well known material, bent upon itself and coiled to provide an eye 5. From the eye the metal is extended in V form to provide branches 66, each coiled between its ends to provide an eye 7. From each of each eyes, the metal is bulged or curved outward at 8 and downward at 9 and terminallyprovided with a loop 10. The parts 9 and 10 constitute mating jaws and the same are normally spaced apart.

The loops 5 and 77 are arranged so that the fingers of the hand of the operatorcan be projected therethrough as shown in Fig ure 1, and pressure exerted upon the eyes 7-7 to separate the jaws of the device into article grasping positions. The eyes 5 and 77 are positioned with respect to each other so as to cause them to easily accommodate themselves to the fingers of the hand and at the same time permit of maximum relative separation of the jaws when the eyes 7-? are placed under stress. The grouping of these eyes together in this manner alsoprovides a means for steadying the device when held in the hand and for guiding the same into position with the article to be lifted and conveyed.

, After the fingers of the hand are inserted in the aforesaid eyes and the jaws of the device separated, said jaws are made to straddle the article to be lifted and the eyes 77 are then drawn toward each other by manipulations of the fingers. The loops 10 then grasp the article so that the latter can be readily picked up. By bulging the wire above the loops 1(), a large space is provided so that the fancy and sometimes creamy upper part of the pastry will not be marred or brought in contact with the device.

hat is claimed as new is 1. A pastry lifter and handling device comprising a member formed of a single length of springy material bent between its ends to form a coil, the material being extended from said coil to provide relatively diverging branches, said branches being disconnected relatively except through said coil, each of said branches having a coil, the coils of said branches arranged in the same horizontal line and respectively disposed beyond the vertical center of the first said coil, and having their axes parallel to the axes of the first said coil, and jaw-like extensions of the material continued from said second named coils.

llll) 2.-A pastry lifter and handling device comprising a member formed of a single length of springy material bent between its ends to "form a coil, the material being e2;-v

tended from said coil to provide relatively, diverging branches, said branches being d2s-,

connected relatively except through the coil, each of said branches having a coil, the coils of said branches arranged in the same horizontal line and respectively disposed beyond the vertical center of the first-said coil, and

the axesof said coils in said'branches being parallel With the axes of the first said coil, jaw-like extensions" oi the "material continued from said second named coils, the free ends of thejaws having loops therein extending at right angles to all of the aforesaid coils.

from said side coils.

3. A device of the class described comprisinga il-sha' ed aart formed at its a eX i P with a coil and at its sides With coils, the

axes of all. of said coils being in parallel relation to each other and ]aWs extended i. A device of the class described con1 prising a ll-shaped part formed at its apex signature.

WILLIAM G'QWILSON. 

